GC43H
The Role of Fire in the Earth System: Understanding Drivers, Feedbacks, and Interactions with the Land, Atmosphere, and Society III

Thursday, 17 December 2015: 13:40-15:40
3014 (Moscone West)
Primary Conveners:  Sander Veraverbeke, University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States
Conveners:  Michael G Tosca Jr, NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Daniel S Ward, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States and Brendan M Rogers, Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA, United States
Chairs:  Michael G Tosca Jr, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Daniel S Ward, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, Brendan M Rogers, Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA, United States and Sander Veraverbeke, University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Brendan M Rogers, Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA, United States
13:55
What Fraction of Global Fire Activity Can Be Forecast Using Sea Surface Temperatures? (82946)
Yang Chen1, James Tremper Randerson2, Douglas C Morton3, Niels Andela3 and Louis Giglio4, (1)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (2)University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
14:10
Fire in Earth System Models (Invited) (66977)
Silvia Kloster and Gitta Lasslop, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
14:25
Wildfires in a Warmer Climate: Emission Fluxes, Emission Heights and Black Carbon Concentrations in 2090-2099 (66984)
Andreas Veira1,2, Gitta Lasslop2 and Silvia Kloster2, (1)International Max Planck Research School on Earth System Modelling, Hamburg, Germany, (2)Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
14:40
Introducing the Global Fire WEather Database (GFWED) (66998)
Robert D Field, Columbia University, Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, New York, NY, United States; NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States
14:55
Fire, Lava Flows, and Human Evolution (83409)
Michael Johns Medler, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, United States
15:10
Evaluation of a chemical proxy for fire intensity: A potential tool for studying fire-climate feedbacks (79381)
William C Hockaday1, Joseph D White1 and Justin Von Bargen2, (1)Baylor University, Waco, TX, United States, (2)Baylor University, Geology, Waco, TX, United States